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Books I’ve Been Reading Lately

What I’ve been reading this week:

The Mother-Daughter Book Club #1 by Heather Vogel Frederick

This book is about four girls and their moms (well, and one dad) reading Little Women over a year in sixth grade.

MacDonald Hall Goes Hollywood  by Gordan Korman

This book is one in a series of the MacDonald Hall books. They are hilarious, and I read them over and over just to laugh.

Don’t Care High by Gordan Korman

This book is about a school where nobody has school spirit and nobody cares. Then they get a new student body president, Mike Otis, who changes everything.

Restart by Gordan Korman

This is a newer and more serious book by Gordan Korman. Chase Ambrose, sports star, falls off of his roof and has amnesia. His whole life changes drastically.

NaNoWriMo Camp 2017!

Have you ever heard of or done NaNoWriMo? Have you done NaNoWriMo Camp? Every November is National Novel Writing Month, and every July is NaNoWriMo Camp! They have two websites: The adult one here, and the kid one here. It is really fun!

 

Books: Nowhere Girl

I read Nowhere Girl by A.J Paquette. It was really touching, and there was one thing in it that I really liked. It was metaphorical thing. It was… a tree! Anyways, it was a REALLY good book. It was mainly about a girl named Luchi Ann who is sort of trying to find herself.

The Harry Potter Books Are Literally A Tornado

Did you ever think of a book that just pulled you in, like a tornado pulling you into its embrace? I think the Harry Potter series is that kind of book.

For Writers: Descriptive words and words that help you relate to characters in situations can help pull the reader in. In essays or nonfiction books, you use a “hook” to push the reader into reading the text. A hook can be an interesting fact or a question. But you always have to keep your reader awake. That’s very important, unless they’re trying to go to sleep.

 

Have you ever read a “tornado” book? What was it called?

Book Recommendations!

Are you a bookworm? Do you want more books to read? Summer break is coming up, and while on a plane or on the couch, how about instead of watching TV you read a book? Who knows, you might enjoy it! Here are some book recommendations that tweens especially will love.

Harry Potter: Why I Love It

Some people wonder why Harry Potter fans love Harry Potter. They never care to actually read the series to find out, though. I wonder why they don’t care to take the time to read the series. Well, just to save them the time (although they should read it–it’s highly recommended by hundreds of people around the world), here’s some reasons why I love Harry Potter:

  • The series teaches so many life skills. Want to find some out? Click here.
  • It’s so captivating!
  • The books just let you sink into a whole other world. (Post on that later.)
  • It just lets you be another character.

There are many more, but I’ll leave it at that for now.

Do you like Harry Potter? Why?

Poetry-Three Little Ducks

Three Little Ducks

Three little ducks,

They waddle down the street

to their pond.

 

Their pond has fish

Swimming in the water

Water weed all around

Mama Duck waiting.

 

Mama Duck waits

for her little ducklings three

to finish waddling down

back home.

Mama’s waiting.

Mama Duck must have patience

for her three ducklings

coming back home.